It’s an honor and pleasure to bring you this new edition of The Best Surgical Grand Rounds Carnival.
FIFA WORLD CUP - SOUTH AFRICA 2010
I would like to express my gratitude to Jeffrey Leow of Vagus Surgicalis (Australian medical student with lots of interest and knowledge of surgery) and the creator of this Great Carnival. Australia is [...]
Kidney stones (nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis) affect approximately 12% of men and 5% of women during their lifetime. Nearly half of all first time stone formers will have another stone episode within the next four years.
Stones can form when calcium, oxalate, uric acid or cystine are at high levels in the urine.
Uric acid stones represents 5 - [...]
Roger Frisch, a solo violinist and associate concertmaster for the Minnesota Orchestra, and how he came to Mayo Clinic and Dr. Kendall Lee (neurosurgeon) for relief of a career-threatening tremor.
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Around 42 million couples worldwide rely on vasectomy as a method of family-planning.
Every year 800,000 vasectomies are performed in the US.
Recanalisation: 0.5% of all vasectomies (is defined as the presence of any spermatozoa after one or more previously azoospermic samples were properly collected and documented).
Why are doctors sued following vasectomy?
Failure to be sterile (unwanted pregnancy)
Failure [...]
Fear from cancer
One not uncommon indication for prophylactic mastectomy is carcinophobia (a.k.a. cancerophobia).
Cancerophobia or carcinophobia is an active behavior of extreme fear of cancer that can lead to repeated medical examination without giving full reassurance to the patient. Denial is a mechanism of defense that usually helps the patient to cope with painful, threatening, overwhelming, [...]
The Best U.S. Hospitals for 2009
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
Cleveland Clinic
Massachusetts General, Boston
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
University of California-San Francisco Medical Center
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston & Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
University of Washington [...]
As in Marvin L. Corman’s book (Colon & Rectal Surgery) quotes:
Man should always strive to have his intestines relaxed all the days of his life and that bowel function should approximate diarrhea. This is a fundamental principle in medicine, that whenever the stool is withheld or is extruded with difficulty, grave illnesses [...]
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